"i hate the beach but i stand in California with my toes in the sand."*
i reach a leg out, dip my toes in the slowly lapping waves. looking out, i see the ocean, stretching for what seems to be forever and ever and ever.
just like what you promised. "forever and always," you said. and i believed you, like the stupid lovesick fool i was. i should have known ; forever never lasts when i'm with you.
people are a lot like the ocean, i realized. turbulent but calm, docile and quiet when unprovoked but with the tendency to roar when angry. that was you. but i suppose
that was also me, because stripped down to the bareness of our souls you and i are one and the same.
we are the ocean, beautiful but treacherous, stretching as far as the eye can see, forever and ever and ever.